Donald Trump’s loyalists are fixated on Philadelphia, and its affection for Joe Biden, as the president’s reelection prospects fizzle. Ted Cruz called Philadelphia “lawless” and “the worst in the country.” Another pro-Trump pundit tweeted, “I’m going to Philly tomorrow. This is war.” The TV commentator Lou Dobbs called Philadelphia “a cesspool electorally” and said Republicans should “surround that thing.
Now that Joe Biden appears to be winning the presidency, we can expect debates over whether Donald Trump was an aberration (“not who we are!”) or another instantiation of America’s pathologies and sins.
Here are some of the things that happened yesterday evening on the most-watched news network in America: The minority leader of the House of Representatives announced, absolutely falsely and with no pushback, that “President Trump won this election.” A former speaker of the House argued that, in the name of democracy, the U.S. federal government should “lock up” state election workers.
As most eyes were focused on the race for the White House, Puerto Rican voters on Tuesday narrowly approved a nonbinding statehood referendum. We get analysis from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González and speak with Afro-Puerto Rican human rights, feminist and LGBTQI activist Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who was elected to the Puerto Rican Senate.
We go to Atlanta for an update, after Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump for the first time in Georgia. The 2020 presidential election could hinge on this extraordinarily tight race.
We look at Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the U.S. presidential election with Jane McAlevey, a union organizer, negotiator and senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center who was an eyewitness to the 2000 Florida recount. She says the 2000 election holds lessons for today, when Democrats allowed Republicans to claim a controversial victory. “We have to have a counternarrative. We have to have very large numbers of people in the streets,” she says.
As President Trump is doubling down on unsubstantiated claims of election rigging as election workers continue counting ballots in several states, concern is growing that some Trump supporters may use violence to disrupt the process.
They’re now middle-aged, like my husband and I, but we’re still taken aback by this revelation.
UPPAbaby cornered the U.S. market with the safe, affordable luxury you might look for when shopping for a car. But now a target may be on its back.
Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court will have the power to block everything—well, almost everything—that Democrats wanted Biden to accomplish.
We are a broken society with a broken political system, made all the more worse by a broken-brained president.
“You have to know if it’s mean or just obvious.
Slate Money talks the Trump economy, dual interest rates, and Chewy.
The order would strip certain civil service and due process protections from career federal employees who make policy.
Spiking infections have seized the headlines — and it could get much worse.
The sign-up season begins amid an intensifying pandemic and shortly before the Supreme Court will weigh Obamacare’s fate.
Nearly every region of the country is reporting an uptick in infections and hospitalizations.
“I’ve personally seen people working on their resumes inside the office,” a senior official added. “It’s no secret.
In Austin, Texas, the vibe is very different than it was four years ago as customers await election results.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
The new Open Storefronts program — modeled on the city’s popular outdoor dining initiative — will allow 40,000 businesses to set up open air operations.
President Trump has prematurely declared victory and falsely accused Democrats of “major fraud,” even as millions of ballots continue to be counted across the United States amid an unprecedented wave of mail-in ballots widely believed to favor Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Approximately infinity years ago, in a 2006 TED talk, the computer scientist Jeff Han demonstrated a new kind of touch-driven display. First he wiggled all 10 fingertips against a big screen attached to a drafting desk, and then the display responded to all of them at once, as if he were scratching the belly of a puppy instead of operating a computer.
Hurricane Eta damage in Nicaragua, a Halloween blue moon, a presidential election in the U.S., earthquake aftermath in Turkey, a whale tail wreck in the Netherlands, colorful vineyards in Germany, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, a light show in Shanghai, and much more.
President Donald Trump tonight raised the threat of a constitutional crisis to a new level. He issued an extraordinary series of baseless charges about the election he is on the verge of losing—that Democrats were stealing the vote, that the media had deliberately released “phony polls” to suppress Republican turnout, that “corrupt” officials in Detroit and Philadelphia were finding Democratic ballots to whittle away his supposed lead.
No. Not Stacey Abrams. Sure, Abrams is almost single-handedly responsible for the current strength of the Democratic Party in Georgia, is a towering inspirational figure, and deserves both the Nobel Peace Prize and her choice of cabinet positions.
But I’m not talking about Abrams. I’m talking about a man. A coal-mining man.
